Jim French: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor exhibition + new Colt apparel collection
//Jim French Polaroid studies//
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor is an exhibition of Polaroids taken by artist, illustrator and print-maker Jim French which opens tonight at New York’s ClampArt gallery.
These include studies for French’s 1969 Colt Studio print Longhorns Dance, incorporated by Malcolm McLaren in 1975 in his notorious Cowboys t-shirt design, as sold in Sex and Seditionaries at 430 King’s Road and worn by the Sex Pistols and others.
//Longhorns Dance by Colt (Jim French) from Manpower! issue 7, 1974//
//Wearing their Cowboys (clockwise from top left): McLaren 1975, Sid Vicious 1977, Siouxsie 1976, Steve Jones 1975. Photographs: Bob Gruen; Dennis Morris; Ray Stevenson; Mick Rock.//
//From queerclick.com//
Meantime Colt is issuing a new apparel collection. I am pleased to note that the company is providing historical background by linking to my 2011 post which tracked down French as the originator of the Cowboys drawing.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor is at ClampArt, W. 25th Street, NYC until December 21. Details here.
An accompanying book of 100 of French’s Polaroids is published today by Antinous Press. See here.